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Tuesday 14 January 2025, 19 Uhr, Cinema on Tuesdays
This time, the Förderkreis is showing a film adaptation of a novel by Julia Franck. The film, directed by Barbara Albert, was made in 2023. For licensing reasons, the title may not be used for advertising purposes.
Admission is free, donations are welcome.
24 to 31 January 2025, everynamecounts of Arolsen Archives
© Arolsen ArchivesThe support group of the Synagogue is calling on people to take part in the #everynamecounts initiative again this year.
The aim is to create a digital memorial to those persecuted by the Nazis. This will enable future generations to remember the names and identities of the victims.
It is a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers transfer the names, places of birth and other information from historical documents about the victims of National Socialism into digital form.
The Flyer explains the tasks in four steps.
© Arolsen Archives
Saturday 25 January 2025, 4pm - 10pm, Cinama on Saturday
We are showing a four-part American TV mini-series by Marvin J. Chomsky from 1978. For licensing reasons, the title may not be used in advertising.
On Saturday we will show parts 1 and 2, and on Sunday parts 3 and 4.
In between, we offer coffee and cake.
Please register:
Admission is free, donations are welcome.
Sunday 26 January 2025, 1pm to 6pm, Cinema on Sunday
We are showing a four-part American TV mini-series by Marvin J. Chomsky from 1978. For licensing reasons, the title may not be used in advertising.
On Saturday we will show parts 1 and 2, and on Sunday parts 3 and 4.
In between, we offer coffee and cake.
Please register:
Admission is free, donations are welcome.
Monday 27 January 2025, 5pm, Holocaust Remembrance Day
Fotos: Ulrich Müller
´Lights for freedom and tolerance´
On the day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism, the Synagogue Support Group in Vöhl calls on everyone to commemorate those who were murdered and those who survived. In the former worship hall, we will simultaneously project 770 names of Holocaust victims from Waldeck-Frankenberg onto a screen.
The building is illuminated from the inside and outside at dusk!
As part of the #GeradeJetzt campaign by the Memorials Department of the Topography of Terror Foundation.
Monday 27 January 2025, 7pm, Remembering the victims, celebrating democracy.
Grafik: Karl-Heinz Stadtler
Commemoration Ceremony
Pupils at Ederseeschule Herzhausen commemorate the horrors of dictatorship and terror and demonstrate that democracy is the system in which we want to live, and why.
The focus is on Article 4 of the German Basic Law: freedom of belief, conscience and confession.
Tuesday 11 February 2025, 7pm, Synagogenkonzert, Trio NOX from Finland
Trio N.O.X. - Female String Trio
Lotta-Maria Heiskanen: violin
Helena Dumell: viola
Saara Viika: cello
Trio N O X is a versatile string trio with a broad repertoire ranging from classical to metal music. The trio was founded in 2020 and released its first album, Origin, in 2022. Trio N O X is passionate about creating its own music (both in collaboration with composers and independently in the future) and performs with metal bands and other artists to bring visions of different styles and genres to life.
In cooperation with:
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Tuesday 18 February 2025, 7pm, Cinema on Tuesdays
This time, the Förderkreis is showing the film by director Éric Besnard from 2023. For licensing reasons, the title may not be used for advertising purposes.
Admission is free, donations are welcome.
Thursday 27 February 2025, 7pm, Lecture `Jewish Doctors´
Foto: privatLecture from Dr. Harro Jenss
Dr Harro Jens is an internist and, as honorary archivist of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS), has researched Jewish doctors who were persecuted by the Nazis. The memory of these doctors is preserved at a memorial site on the Internet that he initiated: the DGVS website ´Gegen das Vergessen´ (Against Forgetting). In his lecture, he can now draw on 110 biographies.
There is no admission fee; we kindly request a donation for the work of the support group.
Sunday 9 March 2025, 3pm, Literaturcafé
Three books will be presented over coffee and cake.
If you have read a book that you particularly enjoyed and would like to recommend to others, please feel free to join.
Twice a year, the Vöhl Synagogue Support Association invites you to take a look at a book.
There is no admission fee. Donations for the work of the support group are gratefully accepted.
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Friday 10 October 2025, 7pm, book reading with Baldur von Berlepsch
F. Sionil José By Ramon FVelasquez - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
B. von Berlepsch reads from his book "Po-On - Die Quellen"
Baldur von Berlepsch from Vöhl spent several years in the Philippines for professional reasons and got to know the writer Franzisco Sionil José there. He accompanied the novelist through the landscapes and places where his five-part Rosales saga, which Berlepsch found so appealing, is set. He decided to translate this monumental work, which depicts the history of the Philippines over almost a century, into German. The saga begins in the colonial era of the late 19th century, describes suffering and oppression, deals with the period of the world wars, and culminates in the dictatorship of President Marcos, whose son still rules the country today.
Fortsetzung
Po-on is the first part of a saga consisting of five self-contained novels. “Po-on” is a word from the Tagalog language spoken by one of the many ethnic groups in the Philippines; it means ‘source’ or ´beginning´. The novel is set during the Spanish colonial period and tells the story of a family who flee their homeland and endure many hardships and adventures before finding a new home.
Baldur von Berlepsch not only reads from the novel, but also introduces readers to the history of the Philippines, a country that is very foreign to us, with its 7,641 islands, less than half of which have names and only 880 of which are inhabited. What makes this special is that von Berlepsch will be presenting the book at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 16. It is his particular wish to present it in his home country beforehand
Free admission, donations are welcome.
Tuesday, 14 October 2025, 7pm, Cinema on Tuesdays
This time, the Förderkreis is showing the film by director Peter Cattaneo from 2024. For licensing reasons, the title may not be used for advertising purposes.
Admission is free, donations are welcome.
Saturday 18 October 2025, 10am to 12am, Information boards on the houses of Jewish families
Example of a plaque, Photo: Karl-Heinz StadtlerInauguration of three plaques on additional houses
In Vöhl, plaques with information about Jewish families are being affixed to houses formerly inhabited by them. Ten plaques have been installed so far, and this year another three will be added to the houses of the
families Salberg/Kaiser, Arolser Str. 14
families Blum/Frankenthal, Arolser Str. 10 and
family Kugelmann, Kirchweg 4.
QR codes direct mobile phone owners to the Vöhler Synagogue website, where they can access a family tree containing many biographies of former residents. These signs serve as a reminder of Vöhl's large Jewish community and commemorate the Jews who emigrated or were murdered.
Tuesday 25 March 2025, 7pm, Book Presentation: Die Zeit davor und danach
Foto: Kurt-Willi JuliusThe date has been postponed because the delivery of the book has been delayed!
On the (pre-)Easter days of 1945 - 80 years ago - the Second World War came to an end for the communities of today's Waldeck-Frankenberg district. The war had been associated with death and destruction, hardship and misery. Some history buffs and Jewish descendants from our region would like to commemorate these days with a book.
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Dr. Marion Lilienthal from Korbach, Heinrich Figge from Höringhausen, Ernst Klein from Volkmarsen, Karl-Hermann Völker and Dr. Horst Hecker for Frankenberg, Dr. Heinrich Knoche from Marienhagen have taken on this topic. Johannes Grötecke also gave descendants of Jews from Bad Wildungen the opportunity to describe how their parents or grandparents experienced the “Third Reich” and built up a new existence in a foreign country after emigrating. Carol Davidson Baird from the USA, Michael Dimor from Israel and Ruben Herzberg, a descendant of Vöhl Jews, will tell the story of their ancestors. Prof. Dr. Dietfrid Krause-Vilmar has agreed to present the book to the public. It will be possible to purchase the book on this “first publication day”.
Friday 21 March 2025, 7pm, Annual general meeting of the support group
Tuesday 11 March 2025, 7pm, Cinema on Tuesdays
This time, the Förderkreis is showing the feature film by Iranian directors Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha from 2024. For licensing reasons, the title may not be used for advertising purposes.
Admission is free, donations are welcome.
Saturday 8 March 2025, 7pm, Synagogenkonzert, M.Vief + M.Hübner + F.Mayer
"Kammer"
with
Matthias Hübner (cello)
Florian Mayer (violin) und
Malte Vief (guitars)
The musicians have been visiting the synagogue with different groups since 2013/14.
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